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  • Title: "PrepCom" ends with U.S. vow to expand pop programs; House panels act on UNFPA.
    Journal: Wash Memo Alan Guttmacher Inst; 1993 May 28; (9):3-4. PubMed ID: 12286461.
    Abstract:
    Delegates to Prepcom II have just completed the new World Population Plan of Action (WPP), which provides goals and a structural outline for action. The WPP will be presented at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in September, 1994. Prepcom will meet again in April, 1994 in New York. The Conference chair, Dr. Fred Sai of Ghana, remarked that there was unprecedented agreement, even on abortion. Debate on the new plan centered on the US delegation's objection to the inclusion of a new chapter on "The Family" which might be construed to imply that there is one notion of family type. US concern was also directed to the omission of "environment" from many chapter headings. The stalemate was broken when the chairman agreed to present the entire outline to the plenary as the "chairman's summary." Substantive chapters were to be devoted to the following: the interrelationships between population, sustained economic growth, and sustainable development; gender equality and empowerment of women; population growth and structure; the family, its role and composition; reproductive rights, reproductive health, and family planning, health and mortality; and population distribution, urbanization, and internal migration. The US delegation representative remarked that there was an expressed appreciation for the complex links among population, environment, consumption, migration, and development. These issues need to be considered from the standpoint of people, especially women, who are affected the most. There was a promise to increase the effort to broaden US support for reproductive health, family planning, and population programs in its foreign assistance budget. In the deliberations about the State Department authorization bill to restore funding for the UN Family Planning Association (UNFPA), a motion carried to withhold $13.8 million from the $50 million authorized for UNFPA in each of fiscal years 1994 and 1995, unless President Clinton certifies to Congress that UNFPA has ended all activities in China. Currently, UNFPA gives $13.8 million in family planning aid to China despite reports of increased incidents of forced abortion and sterilization. Other provisions were to deny US funding for any country, including China, engaged in coercive abortion or sterilization, and to release funds in March, 1994. An additional $50 million was directed to the Agency for International Development Family Planning activities.
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